Its safe to say the folks at Time magazine werent caught unawares by the controversy already boiling up around their latest cover, which features an attractive 26-year-old mother breastfeeding her almost-four-year-old son.

It was a taste of that controversy that convinced Rick Stengel, Times managing editor, that the story deserved to be on the cover.

Like in “Gone with the Wind”, “I don't know nothin’ about birthin’ no babies”.

Does it help Mom's to get their weight back to where it was before pregnancy by breast feeding?

That the longer women breast feed, the sooner they get their figures back. 3 is too much, for crying out loud, but when women want to get the baby weight off quickly, maybe the longer they breast feed.

Like I said: "I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies.". Something about estrogen levels or something, I think.

Years back there was a lady we knew that breast fed each child for many years. One day, while guests were there, one of her sons walked up to her and said, “Tit, ma.” and proceeded to pull off one side of her bra and enjoy his meal while the guests were still in the room.

My favorite line is from Firesign theater:

Mother: “Son, I didn’t breast feed you for 15 years to see you turn out like this! Now, come here son.”

The child looks a lot older than he is--I would have said seven years old. Big kid.

This is porn. Sorry. Child Porn. And the editors of Time will get away with putting this on the cover of a major news magazine so the porn-obsessed with buy it.

Larry Flint hires 18-yr-olds to perform in his porn for big bucks if they happen to look younger than their legal ages. It's called "Barely Legal."

Now here's the opposite...and an extension of the "Mommy Wars"--I happen to think that a child should be weened from this before the first birthday, and I usually get a titty-baby fanatic that thinks it should extend into elementary school...

That was my take. The pose of the mother is more suggestive than nurturing and the look on the child's face doesn't seem like a baby finding comfort ... more like a kid trying to look cool for his buddies.

I know a boy who is 13 years old. He still sits on mommy’s lap, falls asleep in her arms at the campfire and, on those “scary” nights, crawls into her bed. YIKES! That boy has got some problems and will, like this kid, have future issues.

Indeed. And when you give it just a moment of thought, you have to believe the photo wasn't just a "one and done," serendipitously catching mom and baby in the middle of a feeding. This was a professional shoot, with the proper lighting and angles to the subject. The young boy was undoubtedly "coached" on how much of the breast to take into his mouth (lest any nipple or areola be shown), and what angle to look at the camera. There were likely multiple photos in order to get, "just the right shot." This was anything but a beautiful moment of intimacy between mother and child, captured on film.

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posted on 05/11/2012 7:03:50 AM PDT
by Lou L
(The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)

I am tempted to respond to your post with, “Well, duh”, but I suspect a lot of people have not thought of that and it needs to be said. This is clearly part of a photo shoot. There are probably hundreds of shots. Everything from on the couch to sitting to you name it. Probably even some with her partially nude.

1. This will help perpetuate the “War on Women” meme. The more conservatives rail against it, the more the media will claim “oppression”. This was intentionally placed to get public reaction of social conservatives to further the warfare of division.

2. There is a faction of feminists that are militant about breast-feeding “in public”. They are “all-in” with the War on Women strategy. They will come out in droves claiming they were forced to cover-up somewhere at sometime and how humiliated they were by it.

I’m hoping the public “faces” of conservatives just ignore it. Priebus and Romney should STFU, too.

When the kid is old enough to walk in and give his own order at McDonald’s then breast feeding stops having anything to do with the development of the kid or his health and everything to do with the mother.

In the digital age we live in now that picture will haunt this little guy for the rest of his life.

From the image I saw it may be Child Pornography! Perhaps a Republican DA in a red state could issue a warrant for the Time Mag editors and round them up. Just getting rid of this POS magazine should qualify them for a Pulitzer!

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posted on 05/11/2012 8:25:37 AM PDT
by Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

I wonder if this is real or ‘staged’. I am small (A-B), but when I was nursing, they were huge, C cups. And they got bigger the older the babies got. This woman looks smaller than I am now. Also, once I saw a petite Asian woman in a restroom at the mall nursing a huge (fat) 3 or 4 year old. Her boobs looked grotesquesly large, not at all like an Aisan woman. Just saying that these don’t look like the breasts of a nursing woman.

The more conservatives rail against it, the more the media will claim oppression. This was intentionally placed to get public reaction of social conservatives to further the warfare of division.

All the liberal chicks I know were horrified by it.

They viewed it as an attack on their mothering skills, implying that because they didn't breastfeed until their kid was smoking cigarettes they did an inadequate job.

For Time, it didn't endear them to their dingbat mommy readership. It generated a lot of buzz, but I don't think anybody's running out to buy the issue. Exactly the opposite I think.

If there are any males vapid enough to buy this coloring book on occasion, this cover would dissuade them from that supermarket line purchase. What guy wants to look like he's buying a pedophile magazine?

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